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PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON,
ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF MAY, A.D. 1740.
CHAPTER 1.
AN ACT FOR GRANTING THE SUM OF THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
POUNDS FOR THE SUPPORT OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNOUR.
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governour, Council and Repre-
sentatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the
same,
[SECT. 1.] That the sum of three thousand and six hundred pounds 13,600 granted
in bills of publick credit on this province, of the old tenor, be and to the governor.
hereby is granted unto his most excellent majesty, to be paid out of
the publick treasury to his excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq., captain-
general and governour-in-chief in and over his majesty's province of
the Massachusetts Bay, to enable him to go on in managing the pub-
lick affairs.
And be it further enacted,
[SECT. 2.] That the aforesaid sum of three thousand six hundred Fund.
pounds, shall be paid out of the sum of thirty thousand pounds in the
bill for the supply of the treasury, now before this court, which sum is
therein appropriated for the payment of his excellency the governour,
the council, &c. ; or that an equivalent to the aforesaid sum of three
thousand six hundrcd pounds shall be paid out of the next general sup-
ply bill that shall hereafter be agreed on and pass'd by the great and
general court. [Passed June 23; published July 16.
CHAPTER 2.
AN ACT FOR SUPPLYING THE TREASURY WITH THE SUM OF EIGHTY
THOUSAND POUNDS, IN, BILLS OF CREDIT, FOR DISCHARGING THE
PUBLICK DEBTS, gA.; AND FOR ESTABLISHING THE WAGES OF SUN-
DRY PERSONS, 4-., IN THE SERVICE OF THE PROVINCE; AND FOR
THE DRAWING OF THE SAID BILLS INTO THE TREASURY AGAIN,
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governour, Council and Repre-
sentatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the
same,
[SECT. 1.] That the wages of the captain of Castle William shall Establishment
of wages for the
be after the rate of twelve pounds fourteen shillings per month, from garrison at
the twentieth of May, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine, to castle William.
the twentieth of November, one thousand seven hundred and forty; of
the lieutenant, for that term, seven pounds fourteen shillings per month;
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